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DOJ Fraud Division and IRS announce their National Tax Enforcement Surge

Flags for America's 250th birthday celebration hang at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Building on June 4, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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This first-of-its-kind National Tax Enforcement Surge brought together 35 US attorneys’ offices and IRS criminal investigators.

A nationwide series of enforcement actions targeting tax fraud has taken the US by storm.

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) National Fraud Enforcement Division (NFED), along with the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, announced the crackdown in an official release on Wednesday, October 14.

Dubbed the first-ever National Tax

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